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Monday, March 15, 2010

Musical Monday #134

Welcome to the 134th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

The division this week consists of two groups of songs as well as two individual songs each in their own "group". This arrangement is significant, as is the order of the sets and number of songs in each, as will become clear once the theme is fully solved.

1) "There is no one compares with you"2) "Freeze all your expressions into words"3) "Play in sports and skin dive"4) "All I want for you to do is take my body home"5) "It's all been a pack of lies"6) "But you could've said it better"7) "Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside"8) "Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose"9) "Nothing grows and life ain't very pretty"10) "Do my crying and my sighing, laugh at yesterday"11) "And his hunger burns, so he starts to roam the streets at night"12) "When there's no one else around, I'm gonna take you girl and hold you"13) "Three lullabies in an ancient tongue"14) "Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy"15) "You won't find a thing to chew"16) "And the grand facade, so soon will burn"17) "Don't you know that I'll always be true?"18) "I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come"19) "But nothin' is real, and no one can feel like you"

20) "Near the village, the peaceful village"

21) "Broken ice still melts in the sun"22) "I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes"23) "You can't come back and think you are still mine"24) "Light a candle, lay flowers at the door"25) "You left me cold and I'm standin' here freezin"26) "I've pulled the trigger right at you on billboards and movie screens"27) "Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime"28) "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel"29) "And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along"30) "You got your high-heeled sneakers on, slip-in mules"

1) In My Life - The Beatles2) In a Different Light - The Bangles3) "Play in sports and skin dive"4) In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Blind Willie Johnson5) In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins6) In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon7) In a Big Country - Big Country8) In God's Country - U29) In the City - Joe Walsh, The Eagles10) In My Room - The Beach Boys11) In the Ghetto - Elvis12) In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett13) "Three lullabies in an ancient tongue"14) In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry15) In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans16) In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel17) "Don't you know that I'll always be true?"18) "I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come"19) "But nothin' is real, and no one can feel like you"

20) The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens, Robert John

21) Out of Touch - Hall & Oates22) Out in the Street - Bruce Springsteen23) "You can't come back and think you are still mine"24) "Light a candle, lay flowers at the door"25) "You left me cold and I'm standin' here freezin"26) "I've pulled the trigger right at you on billboards and movie screens"27) Out in the Country - Three Dog Night28) "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel"29) Out on the Tiles - Led Zeppelin30) "You got your high-heeled sneakers on, slip-in mules"

Thanks, Soccer Dad, Clayton, TRN, Yitzchak, and Laura! The four sub-topics were songs with "In", "Lion", "Out", and "Lamb" respectively, alluding to the folkism, "March goes like a lion and out like a lamb" - appropitae for my last MM of that month. TRN also caught the fact that the number of songs in each group lined up with the number of winter/spring days in the month. Nice job!

Solutions as follows:

1) "There is no one compares with you"- "In My Life", Beatles2) "Freeze all your expressions into words"- "In A Different Light", The Bangles3) "Play in sports and skin dive"- "In The Navy", The Village People4) "All I want for you to do is take my body home"- "In My Time Of Dying", Led Zeppelin5) "It's all been a pack of lies"- "In The Air Tonight", Genesis6) "But you could've said it better"- "In Your Letter", REO Speedwagon7) "Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside"- "In A Big Country", Big Country8) "Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose"- "In God's Country", U29) "Nothing grows and life ain't very pretty"- "In The City", Joe Walsh10) "Do my crying and my sighing, laugh at yesterday"- "In My Room", The Beach Boys11) "And his hunger burns, so he starts to roam the streets at night"- "In The Ghetto", Elvis Presley12) "When there's no one else around, I'm gonna take you girl and hold you"- "In The Midnight Hour", Wilson Pickett13) "Three lullabies in an ancient tongue"- "In The Court Of The Crimson King", King Crimson14) "Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy"- "In The Summertime", Mungo Jerry15) "You won't find a thing to chew"- "In the Year 2525", Zager and Evans16) "And the grand facade, so soon will burn"- "In Your Eyes", Peter Gabriel17) "Don't you know that I'll always be true?"- "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Iron Butterfly18) "I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come"- "In The Evening", Led Zeppelin19) "But nothin' is real, and no one can feel like you"- "In the Heat of the Night", Pat Benatar

20) "Near the village, the peaceful village"- "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", The Tokens

21) "Broken ice still melts in the sun"- "Out of Touch", Hall and Oates22) "I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes"- "Out in the Street", Bruce Springsteen23) "You can't come back and think you are still mine"- "Out Of Time", The Rolling Stones24) "Light a candle, lay flowers at the door"- "Out Of My Mind", Duran Duran25) "You left me cold and I'm standin' here freezin"- "Out Of Season", REO Speedwagon26) "I've pulled the trigger right at you on billboards and movie screens"- "Out-A-Touch", Pat Benatar27) "Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime"- "Out In The Country", Three Dog Night28) "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel"- "Out of My Head", Fastball29) "And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along"- "Out On The Tiles", Led Zeppelin30) "You got your high-heeled sneakers on, slip-in mules"- "Out Of Sight", James Brown

31) "The all-night watchmen have had their fun"- "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", Genesis